Vincze Miklós

Here are some of the weirdest objects that have fallen from the sky — from pieces of space junk to raw meat.

Space junk, around Baikonur Cosmodrome

Debris and toxic fuel landed often into people' backyards in Altai Territory. This picture from 2000 shows us a part of a Soyuz spacecraft. The villagers there collected these scraps and sold them for money.

The Nakhla Meteorite Hits a Dog, 1911, Egypt

One fragment of the famous Martian Nakhla meteorite landed on a dog, according to a local farmer. The meteorite vaporized the poor animal in a second, and no remains of the dog were recovered. Maybe it's just a legend, because no other eyewitnesses were there to see the animal's fate. In the late 1990s, a team examined a fragment, and found a really complex material inside. They found channels and scoops in the rock that some believe are the effects of microbes that once lived on Mars.

Bean rain in Brazil, 1971

Jelly spheres from the sky, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 2013

Fukang Meteorite, 2000

The meteorite, found in Gobi Desert near Fukang, China in 2000, is full of olivine crystals, which create the effect of glass in direct light. It weighed 2210 pounds (1003 kg), but some people divided it into slices. There are some small specimens and a big portion weighs 925 pounds (420 kg).